The Datum Report

Occupation 3557 · Associate professional occupations

Events managers and organisers

Half of full-time events managers and organisers in the UK earn more than £32,163 a year, and half earn less.

Events managers and organisers manage, organise and coordinate business conferences, exhibitions, concerts and similar events.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements, although entrants typically possess GCSEs/S grades, A levels/H grades, a BTEC/SQA award or equivalent qualifications. Professional qualifications are available and may be required by some employers. Off and-on-the-job training is available.

What the work involves

• discusses conference and exhibition requirements with clients and advises on facilities
• develops proposal for the event, and presents proposal to client
• allocates exhibition space to exhibitors
• plans work schedules, assigns tasks, and co-ordinates the activities of designers, crafts persons, technical staff, caterers and other events staff
• liaises closely with venue staff to ensure smooth running of the event
• ensures that Health and Safety and other statutory regulations are met

Also called

Conference coordinator · Event organiser · Events manager · Exhibition organiser · Hospitality manager · Production manager (corporate hospitality)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for events managers and organisers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 5 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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